Kisah Para Rasul 18:20-21

18:20 When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent, ¹  18:21 but said farewell to ²  them and added, ³  “I will come back ⁴  to you again if God wills.” ⁵  Then ⁶  he set sail from Ephesus,

[18:20]  ¹ sn He would not consent. Paul probably refused because he wanted to reach Jerusalem for the festival season before the seas became impassable during the winter.

[18:21]  ² tn Or “but took leave of.”

[18:21]  ³ tn Grk “and saying”; the participle εἰπών (eipwn) has been translated as “added” rather than “said” to avoid redundancy with the previous “said farewell.” The participle εἰπών has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[18:21]  ⁴ tn Or “will return.”

[18:21]  ⁵ tn The participle θέλοντος (qelontos), a genitive absolute construction, has been translated as a conditional adverbial participle. Again Paul acts in dependence on God.

[18:21]  ⁶ tn A new sentence was begun here in the translation due to the length of the sentence in Greek and the requirements of contemporary English style, which generally uses shorter sentences.